"I'm a member of the Academy, but I……" — Albert Brooks
"I'm a member of the Academy, but I don't know who all the other Academy members are. It's not like a politician who knows who is in the Iowa caucus."
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50 Quotes by Albert Brooks
Albert Brooks has 50 quotes on this site.
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I don't think the goal is, 'How big a star did you ever become?' I think the goal is, 'Were…
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I'm not Elvis. I don't get chased by paparazzi.
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I think anger and laughter are very close to each other, when you think about it.
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If we had 3 million exhibitionists and only one voyeur, nobody could make any money.
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When I die, if the word 'thong' appears in the first or second sentence of my obituary, I've screwed up.
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Be generous and you can be the best person who ever lived.
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Even though my father was a radio comedian, it wasn't cool to say, at a young age, 'I want to…
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How many people didn't get a part who would have been better than the person who got the part? Thousands.
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I can't not put humor in a book.
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I cast unusual people in my movies.
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I come from the place where I am thinking 'I have put my blood on the pages.'
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I don't want to be the one to break it to you, but the future ain't that funny.
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More Academy Quotes
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There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for…
— Charles Babbage
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Soviet regime in a way deprived me from my childhood in my homeland, because my father was in military, and…
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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We lived, until I was 12 or so, in communal apartment with five different families and the same kitchen, in…
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.
— Ambrose Bierce
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High school was interesting, because I went from a public school middle school to an academy where the first year…
— Kyle Chandler
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Music is my life, professionally, for nearly 60 years. To be recognized by the academy is still the highest honor.
— Ray Charles
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You've probably noticed already that I'm dressed like a grown-up... I apologize to the Academy, and I promise that I…
— Cher
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That best academy, a mother's knee.
— James Russell Lowell
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The manager sits down with me; I sit down with the board. We assess the success of the year. The…
— David Gill
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Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain…
— Baruch Spinoza
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When I am dead, let it be said of me: he belonged to no school, to no church, to no…
— Gustave Courbet
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In all our academies we attempt far too much. ... In earlier times lectures were delivered upon chemistry and botany…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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